Early assessment of the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and births in high-income countries.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
; 118(36)2021 09 07.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1379373
ABSTRACT
Drawing on past pandemics, scholars have suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic will bring about fertility decline. Evidence from actual birth data has so far been scarce. This brief report uses data on vital statistics from a selection of high-income countries, including the United States. The pandemic has been accompanied by a significant drop in crude birth rates beyond that predicted by past trends in 7 out of the 22 countries considered, with particularly strong declines in southern Europe Italy (-9.1%), Spain (-8.4%), and Portugal (-6.6%). Substantial heterogeneities are, however, observed.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Birth Rate
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Pandemics
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Pregnancy
Country/Region as subject:
North America
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Europa
Language:
English
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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